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Greener type

Greener type

The Week in?Type Notice anything different? iLT has gone green. In addition I have a new masthead. The Week in?Type Notice anything different? iLT has gone green. In addition I have a new masthead. For more than a year, one of my all-time favourite... 

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Praise sing for every hand lettered sign

Praise sing for every hand lettered sign

That headline is from the poem after Obama’s inauguration speech. Congratulations to all our American friends on this most historic of days. That headline is from the poem after Obama’s inauguration speech. Congratulations to all our American... 

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THE NEW GOTHAMS: 46 New Fonts from H&FJ.

THE NEW GOTHAMS: 46 New Fonts from H&FJ.

Typeface: Gotham Fans of our Gotham typeface will be pleased to find that as of this morning, there are three times as many Gothams in the world as there were yesterday. Typeface: Gotham Fans of our Gotham typeface will be pleased to find that as... 

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Berliner Typostammtisch 01/09: Zusammenfassung

Berliner Typostammtisch 01/09: Zusammenfassung

Das Pecha-Kucha -Konzept des 12. Berliner Typostammtisches ging absolut auf: Neun Typografiefreunde zeigten den etwa 40 Anwesenden je 20 Folien, die jeweils nach genau 20 Sekunden wechselten, und referierten darüber Das Pecha-Kucha-Konzept des 12.... 

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Zweitausendacht: A Year Of Trance

Zweitausendacht: A Year Of Trance

2008 stand musikalisch für mich wieder fest unter dem Stern der Trance-Musik . Seit ihrer Entstehung in den frühen 90er Jahren begleitet sie mich nahezu täglich und hat für mich – meist zum Unverständnis meiner Umwelt – einen hohen Stellenwert.... 

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Inconspicuous vertical metrics

Inconspicuous vertical metrics

by Alec?Julien Five? There are generally taken to be five vertical measures of note in type design (from bottom to top): descender, baseline, midline*, caps-height, and?ascender. But if you delve into the minutiae of font design, you soon discover that... 

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Rhinoviruses have no place in your type collection

Rhinoviruses have no place in your type collection

If you are in the US of A you may want to keep an eye out for the February edition of HOW magazine. Stephen Coles over at Typographica managed to nab the cover story with his feature, Cure for the Common Font . Follow that link for a photo preview from... 

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Happy new font management software, sort of

Happy new font management software, sort of

Happy new year. Happy new year. 2009 gets off to an interesting start with Linotype1 releasing FontExplorer X Pro. What better start to the year than finding out that the free font management software you were using last year just got replaced with an... 

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Berliner Typostammtisch 01/09: Einladung

Berliner Typostammtisch 01/09: Einladung

Der erste Berliner Typostammtisch des neuen Jahres findet am Donnerstag um 19 Uhr an bekanntem Ort statt. Jeder Schriftinteressierte ist dazu herzlich eingeladen, eine kurze E-Mail reicht wie üblich für eine erfolgreiche Anmeldung. Diesmal wird es... 

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Big in Japan

Big in Japan

We’re loving this home movie sent to us by Eric Testroete from Vancouver, who works as a 3D artist on video games. We’re loving this home movie sent to us by Eric Testroete from Vancouver, who works as a 3D artist on video games. The... 

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